Example sentences of "sitting [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | l here were about a dozen customers , mostly middle-aged men sitting alone reading Evening Standards who only troubled the barman to the extent that occasionally he had to turn down the corner of a page of his Stephen King paperback . |
| 2 | Use the formula then , we 're just sitting here wasting time . |
| 3 | We are sitting around drinking coffee in his flat , but you would think we were drinking champagne . |
| 4 | At home , whenever I visited , he always seemed the same docile , attractive child sitting silently watching TV in the impeccably tidy and attractive furnished living room of the very small , terraced house . |
| 5 | This time we were sitting there drinking wine and having straights [ packet cigarettes ] . |
| 6 | Its mail-order business , coyly put on the shelf for sale more than a year ago , is still sitting there gathering dust . |
| 7 | Even cool Joe Spriggs , sitting there stroking nose and chin to a point , was as thirsty for scandal as any one else . |
| 8 | He was sitting there eating pie sandwiches . |
| 9 | James is actually punished by his father for sitting quietly watching television . |